SYNA vs. TSEM, ACIA, AMBA, DQ, MXL, IMMR, IVAC, NTAP, WDC, and LSCC
Should you be buying Synaptics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Synaptics include Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Acacia Communications (ACIA), Ambarella (AMBA), Daqo New Energy (DQ), MaxLinear (MXL), Immersion (IMMR), Intevac (IVAC), NetApp (NTAP), Western Digital (WDC), and Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC).
Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ:TSEM) and Synaptics (NASDAQ:SYNA) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
In the previous week, Synaptics had 1 more articles in the media than Tower Semiconductor. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Synaptics and 3 mentions for Tower Semiconductor. Tower Semiconductor's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Synaptics' score of 1.33 indicating that Synaptics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.5% of Tower Semiconductor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Synaptics shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Tower Semiconductor shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Synaptics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Tower Semiconductor currently has a consensus price target of $46.33, indicating a potential upside of 23.42%. Synaptics has a consensus price target of $117.67, indicating a potential upside of 25.56%. Given Tower Semiconductor's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Synaptics is more favorable than Tower Semiconductor.
Tower Semiconductor has a net margin of 35.27% compared to Tower Semiconductor's net margin of -11.30%. Synaptics' return on equity of 8.78% beat Tower Semiconductor's return on equity.
Tower Semiconductor has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Synaptics has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tower Semiconductor has higher revenue and earnings than Synaptics. Synaptics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tower Semiconductor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Synaptics received 394 more outperform votes than Tower Semiconductor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.58% of users gave Tower Semiconductor an outperform vote while only 63.24% of users gave Synaptics an outperform vote.
Summary
Tower Semiconductor beats Synaptics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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